HUFFPOST FUNDRACE -- "They're gonna run Congress and the White House"

The personal fundraising pitch that President Barack Obama makes to high-dollar donors sounds a lot like the fundraising e-mails the campaign sends out asking for $3 donations. The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove obtained a recording of the president's personal fundraising pitch, "'The majority on this call maxed out to my campaign last time. I really need you to do the same this time,' the president said in a highly unusual (and presumably legal) fundraising pitch from Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Colorado Springs, where he’d been assessing the terrible damage caused by uncontained wildfires. A special phone on the government aircraft is dedicated to political calls that are paid for by the campaign. 'I’m asking you to meet or exceed what you did in 2008,' the presidential pitchman continued, speaking to donors who were invited to dial in based on their contributions during the last election. 'Because we’re going to have to deal with these super PACs in a serious way. And if we don’t, frankly I think the political [scene] is going to be changed permanently. Because the special interests that are financing my opponent’s campaign are just going to consolidate themselves. They’re gonna run Congress and the White House.'"

A number of super PACs have formed and spent money in congressional races before having to disclose the source of their funds, a new report from the Center for Responsive Politics finds.

Sen. Jim DeMint is decoupling himself from his leadership PAC so that it can turn itself into a super PAC. DeMint is not allowed to coordinate with a super PAC and cannot be connected to the PAC anymore. A previous attempt by Sen. Mike Lee to run a super PAC was rebuffed by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). DeMint can still raise money for the PAC.

Fred Davis, the GOP ad man behind the spiked super PAC plan to blast Obama for his ties to the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is very sorry and swears that he isn't racist, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Sunlight Foundation looks at congressional spending on advertising and finds that a huge spike in spending occurs in October. Also, current congressional ad spending is actually lagging the pace set in 2008 and 2010.

The Democratic super PAC, House Majority PAC, released details on the advertising buys that it has reserved, in partnership with the Service Employees International Union, for the fall months prior to the election.

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